ALEX

 

One of the very first companys to produce videogame action figures, along Toy Biz, was ReSaurus back in the 90s. Sadly they dissapeare a few years later but they manage to produce some very impresive figures from Crash Bandicot, Meteoro and Street Fighter, a series based on the 2D art of Capcom.

I got Ryu, Cammy, Vega and Alex and i missed Ken and Blanka wich was a shame because Blanka was awesome. I kinda missplaced Vega´s mask soo didnt take pictures of him until i foind it but i will review Alex instead. Alex is....a pretty weird character, a pretty obscure one considering he was the main character in Street Fighter 3 in the end of the 90s. But then again, no one cared for SF 3 back then...

Soo for many years this was the only figure of Alex and he is HUGE, much more than Ryu or Cammy, tall and really heavy. He can stand perfectly tough he got the same logo base the rest of the figures got. He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, wrists, waist, legs and knes but despite this perfectly working articulations, he is mostly an statue capable of a couple of poses and no more.

And unlike Cammy, his pose is strong but kinda boring. The sculpt tough is really impresive, the big boots, the huge hands, the thing waist and giant back and shoulders and the rock solid muscles, this is a really good 3D representation of the artwork of SF3. Also the sculpt is very angular, wich gives him a more ripped look and both his hair and overall are made with soft plastic.

The paint is limited t his bandana, face, glvoes, boots and the marks on his shoulders and is pretty clean and perfect tugh he got a pretty bad problem with the skin color. He is cast on pretty dark plastic and i have no idea why they did this since on the game he is really pale. Also with the years, the plasic of his torso has been changing color and getting some weird yellow stains.

I dont know why the stains but aside of that his skin color is already wrong and that ruins a pretty good sculpt of a character that dosnt have too many figures to beging with. I guess ReSaurus wasnt as perfect as it looked. They release a second series with characters from Street Fighter Zero and 3 (Chun Li, Akuma, Sagat, Nash...) but i was never able to get them.

CAMMY

 

Last century was very different for Street Fighter, not only it was super popular but it didnt had the flood of merchadise we have for it. Now we got multiple companys mass producing Street Fighter figures; Storm, Figuarts, Prime1, Funk, Play Arts Kai, NECA....but back in the 90s there was only one company producing them: ReSaurus.

They were huge and cool and totally based on Capcoms 2D art wich makes them stad out from other figures (like Toy Biz). I got Ryu of course but i also got the only female of the first series of figures: Cammy.

Just like Ryu, Cammy is more like a statue than an action figure and she is even less articulated than Ryu: only her head, shoulders and legs can move but this lack of articulation means her body dosnt looks robotic or in sections, ReSaurus were more concerned about aesthetic than playability.

She can stand on her own perfectly, but still she comes with the same base the rest have: a big coin with the Street Fighter logo. The metal texture and golden paint along side the grafity logo felt very 90s....and also, like most Cammy figure, she is designed to give her back to the viewer or at least she does it in most promotional photos.

The scult is good, the pose is really simple but extremelly powerfull and her bent arm and hair adds some drama to the display. The musculature is pretty good looking and have a super hero comic style. She have more paint than Ryu tough since her swimsuit, camo, boots, gauntlets and face are all painted and her braids have some golden shadows to make them looks more natural too.

The paint is clean and they didnt forgot any detail since even the scar on her check is there. The eyes are huge, kinda anime looking but not soo much at the same time and for some reason the eyes are focused to different directions but is not that easy to notice, specially when she is on profile

This is the 2P version tough, with soft blue swimsuit and camo since the original version 1P is painted on green. That was rpetty cool from ReSaurus, to add a secondary color scheme for figure but not give them a crazy and akward color palette, just make a discrete variant.

Over the years theres lots of new Cammy figures soo i guess this one looks really outdated by now but is such a classic since this is the very first plastic version of such iconic character.

RYU

 

Last century, while Street Fighter was the most succesfull Capcom production, there wasnt too much about the character in toy form. Actually there wasnt too much merchadise at all. There was a horrible G.I. Joe Sreet Fighter action figure series that was stuff of nightmares (Ryu and the rest had machineguns and swords) and that was all until the last days of the century, when a brand new company called ReSaurus release an action figure serires of Street Figther (along Crash Bandicot and other brands).

The figure were HUGE, bigger than any other action figure on the market and they came in this cool blister like canister that made them feel very special and premium. Also, the sculptor were sure to made them 100% accurate to the game designs, with the traditional Street Fighter anatomy.

The very first figure i got was my main man Ryu of course. He is based on his Street Fighter Zero version soo he is the young Ryu with the white bandana. He is almost as big as a Play Arts Kai and can stand perfectly tough they give him a base in the shape of a giant coing with the logo of Street Fighter on it and this is his only accesory.

Well, maybe for today standars he is not very impresive looking, but for the 90s he was terrific. The muscles are pretty close to how the Capcom artists drew them, the size of the hands and feet, everything transltaes pretty well the 2D art of Capcom. His face needs a little bit of deffinition on the mouth tough and theres no textures at all, just clean plastic wich is not bad considering the cartoon nature of Ryu.

The paint is at minimum, his hair, eyes, gloves and nails are pretty much the only painted parts on this figures since each of his elements is cast on flesh tone plastic. His uniform is made with soft pastic as well as his bandana and belt and this was pretty unique back then. With the years the paint of his brown hair has been chiping off a little but aside of that the paint is clean and detailes, he even got the golden kanjis on his belt.

He is not very articulated tough since they designed this figures to be like statues, sculpted on a single dynamic pose with very limited articulations for a couple of variants but thats it. He is articulated on his neck, shoulders, waist, legs and knes and while all articulations move perfectly, Ryu is permanently looking down, about to punch someone on the ground.

The pose is not that bad tough since the bandana and belt adds a lot of dinamism to an already pose full of movement. Actually, i always found this figure really sexy, much more than the Play Arts Kai. His silhouette is very stylish and i love how his uniform opens to show a lot of his chest and even a nipple. For many years this was actually my favorite Ryu figure, much better looking than the SOTA version.